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Supreme Court divided on whether EPA has overreached on greenhouse gas rules
Supreme Court divided on whether EPA has overreached on greenhouse gas rules
By Robert Barnes, Published: February 24
The Supreme Court was divided Monday over whether the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency had gone too far in trying to regulate power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.
Liberal justices seemed ready to defer to the agency’s interpretation about how to protect the environment from greenhouse gases under a contested portion of the Clean Air Act. Conservative justices were skeptical of how the agency had to essentially rewrite some of the law’s requirements to avoid “absurd” results.
But the justices also wondered whether it would make much difference in the long run. All sides agreed that the EPA has the power to regulate greenhouse gases, but they differed on how the agency should go about it. Even if the government lost, some justices said, it would make only a small difference in the number of facilities that could be regulated.
“It’s a question of whether they do exactly the same thing under one provision or another provision,,” said Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
The back-and-forth suggested the possibility of a narrow ruling ...
By Robert Barnes, Published: February 24
The Supreme Court was divided Monday over whether the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency had gone too far in trying to regulate power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.
Liberal justices seemed ready to defer to the agency’s interpretation about how to protect the environment from greenhouse gases under a contested portion of the Clean Air Act. Conservative justices were skeptical of how the agency had to essentially rewrite some of the law’s requirements to avoid “absurd” results.
But the justices also wondered whether it would make much difference in the long run. All sides agreed that the EPA has the power to regulate greenhouse gases, but they differed on how the agency should go about it. Even if the government lost, some justices said, it would make only a small difference in the number of facilities that could be regulated.
“It’s a question of whether they do exactly the same thing under one provision or another provision,,” said Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
The back-and-forth suggested the possibility of a narrow ruling ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-divided-on-whether-epa-has-overreached-on-greenhouse-gas-rules/2014/02/24/78852f6c-9d93-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html